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Transcript Why Flutter might be better than native Android/iOS development in 2020 A quick history of mobile app development In mid 2007, the iOS mobile operating system was released, and in late 2008 came Android. For a very short period of time, if you… Read More »Flutter vs Android/iOS – Hybrid vs Native App Development in 2020
Ever tried making an infinite scroll list that loads data from a network API? You know, like you see on social media feeds like Facebook and Twitter? You can’t load an infinite amount of data from an api in one go. You would have to… Read More »Network API List Pagination with LiveData
Transcript: Python is an amazing language for quite a number of reasons. It’s easy to pick up and learn, even as a first programming language, large applications can have development times significantly reduced when written in Python, it’s amazing for machine learning and data… Read More »(Video) Running Python Scripts on the Android Frontend with Chaquopy
Goal Replace manual handling of callbacks and potential memory leak sources with Lifecycle-Aware Components. Problem An Activity or Fragment may include callbacks such as network calls or heavy computational calls that may take a noticeable amount of time and are thus performed on a different… Read More »Understanding Lifecycle-Aware Components from Android Jetpack
First we had findViewById. Then we had Butterknife. Then came Kotlin Synthetic. Now, an even better way of referencing our XML views takes the stage. View Binding, not to be confused with Data Binding (more on that later), is a new feature in Android Studio… Read More »Getting to Grips with View Binding on Android
Consider yourself lucky if you have an API that gives you all the data you want in your app and nothing else. Unfortunately, that’s rarely ever the case. Chances are, you deal with API responses that’s filled with 80% data you don’t need (or even… Read More »Parsing Complex Api Structures with Deserializers on Android
MVVM is unarguably the best architectural pattern for most Android apps in 2020. The Model-View-ViewModel architecture uses these 3 components to create an architecture that features many strengths over its predecessors, has tons of official support from Google in the form of Architecture Components, and… Read More »Introduction to the MVVM Architectural Pattern on Android
Coroutines are great. They allow us to write asynchronous code as if they were synchronous. It lets us avoid callback hell, transform our data easily, thread switching, etc. It’s a pretty sweet deal. Well at least we got Rainbow Brackets Testing it however, may not… Read More »Unit Testing Coroutines on Android
Dagger 2 Scopes are something that a lot of people don’t understand. Many people use them without understanding why they’re used, simply because they modelled their app after a Dagger tutorial and things just worked out. I myself am guilty of this. So in this… Read More »Dagger 2 Scopes Explained and the mighty Singleton (Scope)
The COVID-19 virus has taken the world by storm. While many other places shut down for good, as software developers, only our offices have closed down but our work continues from home. This change of environment can quite greatly change the way we go about… Read More »Transitioning to Remote Work as a Software Developer (COVID-19 Edition)
Firebase Extensions are pre-packaged solutions that allow you to do an array of things (no pun intended) that integrate with other Firebase solutions. These include resizing images uploaded to Cloud Storage, shortening urls from Cloud Firestore, and sending an email when a document is added.… Read More »Top 5 Firebase Extensions as of March 2020
Gone are the days of SQLiteOpenHelper. We live in a new era of Android Development dominated by Android Architecture Components. One of which is the Room Persistence Library: a library that provides an abstraction layer of SQLite for more robust access database access with sexy… Read More »Getting Started with Room on Android
It’s no doubt that coroutines are taking over as the go-to way to do asynchronous programming in Android over RxJava. Many of Firebase’s services use Task objects to perform asynchronous operations of their own, including Firestore, Authentication, Storage, and Remote Config. The standard way proceed… Read More »Using Coroutines with Firebase on Android
It’s that time of the year when we round up the 10 best and most used Android developer libraries of the season. The libraries listed down here have become set in stone as must-learns if you want to be a competent Android developer. Many companies… Read More »Top 10 Essential Android Developer Libraries February 2020
In Kotlin, almost everything is a value that can be stored, including functions, thus they are first class. When you can store something in a variable, you can pass it around as function parameters or have them as return types. Higher-order functions are functions that… Read More »Kotlin Higher-Order Functions
Type Aliasing is one of the many features of the Kotlin programming language. It allows you to give an alternative name to a type. typealias WordList = List<String> The official Kotlin docs suggests using Type Aliases for long generic types typealias Room = Pair<String, List<User>>… Read More »Shorten Long Type Names with Kotlin Type Aliases